Hair-roll



I. GOLDMAN.

HAIR ROLL- APPLICATION FILED Nov.1o, 1-920.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921..

INVENTOR WITNESS A TTORNEY mums Pzms. mu. Lune. wnamncmn, n. c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC GOLDMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB. T0 HYMAN & OPPENHEIM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HAIR-ROLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Application filed November 10, 1920. Serial No. 423,127.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC GOLDMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Rolls, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hair dressing appliances, and has particular reference to hair rolls.

Among the objects of the invention, distinguishing it from previous or known de vices or processes, are the following: To produce a hair roll that is superior to other rolls in respect of its form, appearance, flexibility and resiliency, comfort to the wearer, and durability; to produce a hair roll that will most easily and fully blend or harmonize with the natural hair of the same wearer, and to accomplish other ob jects as will more fully appear hereinafter as this description progresses in connec tion with the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view partly broken away, showing my new roll.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing more distinctly the method of weaving the roll.

Referring now more specifically'to the drawings it will be observed that in the practice of this invention a hair roll or other article used in hair dressing, such as a wig, transformation, or the like, is best produced by a process of weaving, a process that may be performed either by hand or by machinery, but which includes essentially the following steps:

First, the hair after being preliminarily.

treated as heretofore to include trimming, cleansing, or the like, is carefully and uniformly crimped and supplied to the weaver.

Secondly, the weaving is proceeded with, and for this purpose I employ a plurality of strong warp threads, preferably an even number of such threads being used and of a color to harmonize with the hair being woven. The operator then withdraws from the mass of hair provided, a small tuft or strand of hair, introduces it at its middle in and between the warp threads 10 in the form of a succession of loops or catches 11, the threads being crossed between each two successive loops or catches of the hair. The end portions 12 of each tuft or strand of hair may project from the line of the warp threads in any desired direction, but preferably 011 the same side. Any suitable number of loops or catches may be observed in each tuft in order to insure complete and permanent anchorage of the hair in the threads. After one tuft of hair is woven in another one is introduced, but from the other side of the warp threads, so that the first end 12 of the next tuft will project directly opposite from the last end of the next preceding tuft. Otherwise the end of one tuft and the beginning of the next may have any suitable relation to each other, but preferably these two ends are locked or gripped between the threads in the same loop as indicated at 13. The best means for introducing the tufts of hair so that the end portions 12 project in opposite directions from the line of warp threads is for the operator to introduce such tufts by alternating hands, first right hand and then left hand, of course causing the warp threads to change their bridges for each catch or loop of hair. WVith the successive tufts of hair introduced into the operation as thus described there is no possibility for any gaps or spaces to be formed and so the weaving process may be carried on indefinitely as to length.

Thirdly, after a Weft is formed as thus described it is cut into lengths according to the demand of the trade. The ends of the warp threads will of course be suitably fastened to prevent unraveling thereof, and each length calculated for an individual roll or analogous article of head dress is then combed or brushed vigorously to make it of smooth uniform round or cylindrical form, and after the combing or brushing is finished the roll is laid upon a flat surface and subjected to a rolling action under a flat reciprocating body, and thus the article is produced in permanent finished form.

I claim:

1. The herein described hair article comprising a plurality of warp members and a succession of tufts of hair interwoven between said members, each tuft of hair being caught intermediate of its ends between the warp members, and the end portions of each tuft extending in the same general direction laterally from the warp members.

2. The herein described hair roll comprising a plurality of warp members arranged in criss-cross relation to one another and a series of tufts of hair interwoven in succession between said members, each tuft of hair being caught intermediate of its ends between the warp members, and all of the ends of the hair of one tuft extending laterally from the warp members in a direction opposite from. the ends of the hairs of the next adjacent tuft.

3. The herein described hair roll of smooth cylindrical form comprising a plurality of warp threads arranged in crisscross relation to one another, and a succession of tufts of hair interwoven between the threads, each tuft of hair being caught at its middle portion between the threads, and

the end portions of adjacent tufts extending laterally from the threads in oppositedirections. A

A. A device as set forth in claim 3 in which the two end portions of each tuft of hair extend from the warp threads in the same direction.

5. A device as set forth in claim 3 in which the end of one tuft and the beginning of the next adjacent tuft lie in direct contact with each other between the warpthreads and extend laterally therefrom in opposite directions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ISAAC GOLDMAN. 

